Saturday, August 19, 2017

Sunday, November 27, 2016

Happy Holidays! I'm still alive and still posting. I just seemed to move on to Instagram these days! I loved blogging, but it seems so many others moved on, too. I like the accessibility and visibility of Instagram these days as it's so much easier to post pictures and easier for larger audiences to see you with hashtags. id like to invite anyone who hasn't yet to please visit me at 58Cherries on Instagram and see what I've been up to!!

I also added some silhouettes to the shop - of course. But the reason I needed to add a bunch was I had a large order this week - I still need to make new bigger silhouettes, but for now I added these.

So sweet - in my favorite frames. Funny thing is, no sooner did I put it in the shop then it sold within about 2 hours. Wow! So here I am with another set.

Tuesday, January 6, 2015

New Year's is pretty low key in our house. Mostly we watch movies or marathons on TV (Breaking Bad this year - pretty good show!). But we also baked traditional Greek New Year's bread - Vasilopita.

Basically it is just a bread with a coin wrapped in foil baked inside. Whoever cuts the piece that has the coin has good luck that year. You can use a variety of dough recipes or even make it a cake. We took another stab at making Tsoureki. It's a kind of sweet, slightly heavy bread. It came out rather thick. Smelled fantastic as it baked.

Here's a pic:

It's supposed to say 2015. This one showed up the best, the other one looked scrambled.

So far 2015 has been pretty peaceful, but it is, of course, COLD! Tomorrow is supposed to be 9 F at the warmest here. Brrrr!! We ended up making some scarves. I put one in the shop as it is too cute not to share!

Monday, November 24, 2014

Even as I ready last minute Thanksgiving details, I can't help but turn to the next holiday. I've been decorating already and, of course, added a few things to my shop.

My little French house...

I swore I'd keep this house for myself, but I can never help putting things up in my shop no matter how much I want it so it is for Sale. Available in my shop.

I've made plenty of Silhouette ornaments in the past, but the little white tree I had was woefully inadequate to display them on. I bought a much bigger one to better show them on. I'm still fiddling with the tree, but here's a first look:

I've added a lot of new kinds of ornaments this year - some framed, some paper mache. Different sizes and shapes, different backgrounds, etc. It makes for an eclectic mix on one tree, yet rather interesting, too. I'm selling them in pairs or alone for the most part.

This is the first set of new ornaments I added a few weeks ago to my shop.